A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…

Lecture and Exhibition

Film screening and Book Launch

How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.

Surya Suryadi is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Angelo Romano is an Assistant Professor at the unit Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology at the Institute of Psychology. He is interested in understanding the psychology of conflict and cooperation among people, groups, and nations.

If you wish to share files with colleagues within or outside the university, you can save these files in the cloud. You can do this with OneDrive, which is part of your Microsoft 365 account. If your files are too large to be sent by e-mail, you can use SURFfilesender.

Firstly, Data Management Plan (DMP) is after all a plan, so you must carry it out!

If you wish to share files with colleagues within or outside the university, you can save these files in the cloud. You can do this with Office 365 or OneDrive. If your files are too large to be send by e-mail, you can use SURFfilesender.

Facility

Via Microsoft 365 and OneDrive you can work from all kinds of places and on different devices without having to use Remote Workplace.

Via Microsoft 365 and OneDrive you can work from all kinds of places and on different devices without having to use Remote Workplace.

In 2011, the University of Hussein Bin Talal in Maan and Leiden University initiated the joint Udhruh Archaeological Project, led by Professors Fawzi Abudanah and Mark Driessen.

Research

Joost Augusteijn is Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History and Programme Chair of the BA International Studies and the Joint MA European Politics and Society.

A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…

Gabrielle van den Berg is Professor of Cultural History of Central Asia and Iran at Leiden University. She teaches courses on the cultural history of Central Asia and Iran. In 2016, she received an NWO VICI grant for her project

A deliberate attack on a tangible element of a culture, such as a temple, is often also an attack on intangible elements: the religion or religious customs. Equally, the intangible can be attacked without the involvement of the tangible, for example the brutal curtailment of rights. How are these reflected…

The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…

Nicky Schreuder is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Sophie Starrenburg is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. Her work broadly focuses on the intersections between public international law and cultural heritage. Currently, her research concentrates on cultural heritages…

Leonor Jonker (1987) is a historian, author, and artist. She was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017).

Leiden University will continue to offer its BA in Italian Language and Culture. The Board of the Faculty of Humanities has reversed its decision to stop admitting new students as of the 2026/2027 academic year.

Alessandro Aleo is a PhD candidate at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology.

Nurul Huda Rashid is a postdoctoral researcher with the Project One Among Zeroes |0100|: Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam, at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) at Leiden University.

Facility

Data management refers to creating, saving, updating, making available, archiving and long-term storage of research data. The final goal of this process is often defined in terms of the FAIR principles: 'Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable'.

Working in a laboratory is different from working in an office. Some of the rules that apply when working in or around a laboratory are given below.

In accordance with the Faculty Strategic Plan, the thematic page on Languages and Cultures of the World has been launched. It provides an overview of the university's expertise in the field of Languages and Cultures. This theme is one of the four core areas that position the expertise of the Faculty…

Teachers viewed multicultural classes with VR glasses and discussed that for the study 'Culturally responsive teaching in multicultural classes'.

Dr Michael Kerschner is Senior Guest Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology. Parallel to this position he is a research associate at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and responsible for the research focus “Cult and Sanctuary” there. His main field…

Erik Kroon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Lecture, Conversation

Ksenia Fedorova is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Within the Modern and Contemporary cluster of LUCAS, she is affiliated with the Environmental Humanities sub-cluster.

PhD defence

As a PhD candidate, you work with data. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.